Pest Control Gallery
North Fulton Pest Solutions is equipped to deal with all kinds of pest control issues. To further educate you, we have provided this Pest Gallery. Here we discuss common household pests and solutions for dealing with them.
Ants
Argentine Ants
Argentine ants can be a nuisance as they deposit trails foraging for food. Their colonies grow quickly and move often, making them difficult to control.
Red Imported Fire Ants
Red Imported Fire ants build large mounds and their sting can be painful and dangerous to someone who is hypersensitive to its sting. Your North Fulton Pest Professional can provide a cost effective way to rid your home or business of these insects.
Pavement Ants
Although pavement ants tend to make their nests in cracks and under pavement, they can also invade your home. North Fulton Pest Solutions offers a wide variety of ant elimination programs, ideal for eliminating pavement ants.
Carpenter Ant Control
The first step in carpenter ant control is a thorough inspection in and around the structure. You'll want us to inspect all areas that are conducive to carpenter ants from the ground level to the roof peak. Carpenter ants are most active at night. Sometimes an evening inspection is necessary to locate a difficult carpenter ant problem. The key to eliminating carpenter ants is locating the colony. This is often difficult as the carpenter ants usually locate their nest inside wall or ceiling voids where it is hard to get at.
Also where carpenter ants trail into a building is not always where the main colony is located. Carpenter ants sometimes form satellite colonies where they enter and exit a structure. Satellite colonies are in between the main colony and food locations or swarming locations. The ants may enter at a location and then climb through walls and rafters to where the nest is really located. After the nest or entrance ways have been determined the wall or ceiling void may be drilled and treated to eliminate the entire colony.
Roach Control*
Cockroaches have been around for more than 350 million years.
There are nearly 4,000 different species of cockroaches known in the world. At least 69 species can be found in the U.S, but only about 22 species cause pest problems in homes or businesses. Only four species, which are all distributed world wide, cause frequent and significant problems in the U.S. and much of the rest of the world. These are the German, American, Brown-Banded, and Oriental cockroaches; in roughly that order of importance as urban pests.
Most species live in tropical or subtropical areas and nearly all need warm, dark, moist places to hide during the day. They nearly all will eat anything available, from sugar to rotting leaf litter to feces. They are important in recycling dead and decaying matter (especially dead plant matter) in their natural settings.
Because they reproduce rapidly and can enter your home in mass numbers, roaches can be difficult to control. Once inside, they can destroy books, photographs, electric appliances, and furniture by leaving their unsightly droppings causing a foul odor. In the cockroach family identification process, all of them are known to spread bacteria, carry parasitic worms, and other diseases. As they forage for food, they can deposit germs and bacteria on counter tops, dishes, and in food, which can cause food poisoning, dysentery, or diarrhea.
Some people are allergic to roaches and medical studies have shown that cockroaches are responsible for childhood asthma. Let us provide you the best way to get rid of roaches.
Cockroaches often are a health threat. In general, the habits and high reproductive rate of pest cockroaches can lead to large populations which spread disease organisms, contaminate and eat our food, and cause allergies and even asthma.
American Cockroaches
The American cockroach is the largest of the house-infesting roaches. These roaches often live outside during the summer but move indoors during colder months. Getting rid of cockroaches can be difficult. Once they infest your home, they can damage your books, photographs, and clothing. North Fulton Pest Solutions provides an effective service to get rid of roaches.
German Cockroaches*
German cockroaches prefer warm, moist environments. They feed on starches, sweets, grease, meats, and other foods. Custom programs can be devised by North Fulton Pest Solutions to get rid your home or business from roaches. *Space fogging treatments may require additional services at additional costs for German Roaches.
Brownbanded Cockroaches
Brownbanded cockroaches are among the most difficult roaches to control because they can infest every room in your home. They prefer elevated and dry places to hide, such as behind wall hangings or behind your light switch covers.
Carpenter Bees, Wasps, Hornets
While most stinging and biting pests don't present a significant risk to many people, their attacks can be very painful. In addition, a number of bug bites and stings can be dangerous to babies and young children, the elderly and people with allergic reactions to insect venom. To help keep stinging and biting pests away from your family and home, schedule an appointment for pest control services.
Earwigs
Earwigs hide during the day in moist shady places beneath stones, sidewalks, and debris, but they will migrate indoors during hot, dry weather.
Flea and Tick Control
With more than 2,000 different species of fleas, it's no wonder they're so abundant around the globe. So it's important to be prepared, whether you're at home or traveling with your cat or dog. Due to factors such as local climate conditions, the flea season as recommended by the Flea Index may vary from year to year. It should also be noted that fleas (in their various stages) can survive indoors during the cold weather months, therefore a monthly flea control regimen is recommended. Consult your pest control operator about flea prevalence in your area, how long it lasts and the recommended time to start your cat or dog on flea control.
Tick Control*
Ticks are relatives of spiders, scorpions, and mites. As such, their survival is dependent on a host (i.e., they're parasites). Specifically, ticks feed on an animal's blood or body fluids. The deer tick (Ixodes scapularis in the East & Midwest, and Ixodes pacificus in the West) goes through many stages during its lifecycle, and feeds on different species at each point.
Ticks begin as eggs (stage 1) that hatch into 6-legged larvae (stage 2).
Larvae live and feed on animals (mice, deer, squirrels, livestock, and any humans who enter the tick habitat) for about a week before detaching then molting (shedding) anywhere from 1 week to 8 months later.
The larvae then become 8-legged nymphs (stage 3). Nymphs feed on animals, engorge for 3 to 11 days, detach, and molt about a month later (depending on the species and environmental conditions).
Once the nymph molts, it becomes an adult tick (male or female). Ticks climb up grass and plants and hold their legs up "sensing" and "looking" for their prey. Ticks are attracted to their hosts by detecting carbon dioxide and heat through special organs located on the first pair of the tick's legs (Haler's organs). When a warm-blooded animal walks past, the tick can crawl onto them and begins feeding. Ticks insert their mouths, attach to their prey, and engorge themselves with a blood meal (stage 4). During feeding, tick saliva can get into the host's body and blood stream. Any tick infected with Borealis borderer can then inadvertently spread this bacteria to the host.
Male and female ticks usually mate while attached to the host. A few weeks later, the engorged female detaches from the host and lays her eggs (1000 - 8000 eggs) on a leaf. A tick usually lives a year before dying.
*Exterior and yard treatments are available at additional costs.
Mice and Rats
House Mouse
The House mouse can transmit pathogens that cause diseases such as salmonellosis (food poisoning).
Deer Mice
Deer mice can transmit Hantavirus, a pulmonary and potentially fatal disease. The disease can be transmitted through contact with a mouse carcass or by breathing the urine of an infected mouse.
Norway Rats
Norway rats can be reservoirs for bubonic plaque (transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea or other insect), and are known to cause endemic typhus fever and rat bite fever. North Fulton Pest Solutions empowers our service team with the tools to do the job right.
Roof Rats
Roof rats can be reservoirs of bubonic plague, and are known to cause endemic typhus fever, and rat bite fever. When you need to rid you home or business of rodents, we are the only choice. Let our team of professionals provide you with the peace of mind, knowing you have the best protection money can buy.
Mosquito Control
There are at least 70 species of mosquitoes in North America, ranging through all types of habitats, climates, and varying widely in their habits and appearances. Many Species breed within small, temporary pools such as plant bases, standing water, pet bowls, bird baths, or ponds. If there is only temporary water the eggs may be laid by the female long before water is present. Once the water contacts the eggs then they can hatch. The larvae are unusual that they can stay below the water surface. The winter is spent in the larval stage. Many mosquitoes carry diseases.
Control is Important. The most important control measure for mosquito control is prevention, removing harborage areas. Get rid of standing water. This can prevent future problems. Larval method of control is a good method of control. A good inspection can help identify these problems.
Bed Bugs
Background
This insect has a famous history as a bloodsucker and is named due to its tendency to feed on a bed’s occupants at night. The bed bug primarily attacks humans but can feed on any warm blooded animal such as birds, mice, and pets. The bed bug is found worldwide and probably came to the US from Europe in the 17th century.
Identification
Adults are just under a 1/4” long and are relatively flat, nearly as wide as long, and oval in shape compared to most other insects. The color is brown to reddish brown. The body may have short golden hairs and will exude a “sickening sweet” smell from glands on its body. There are many types of bed bugs and related insects.
Reproduction and Biting
Female bedbugs can lay over 500 eggs over a lifetime and each bed bug will molt or shed its shell five times as it grows and a blood meal is required for each molt. If blood meals become scarce, bed bugs can slow their life process until a blood meal source is found. The saliva of the bed bug may cause a swelling on most people when they are bitten but they do not leave a wound. Swelling may include redness in some sensitive people.
Habits
The bed bug is able to crawl into very small crevices in and around the human environment. These include between mattresses, seams in bed linens, upholstery, behind wood trim, inside electrical boxes, in floors, behind wallpaper, and in any other area near a blood meal that will hide a very thin insect. Note, however, that bed bugs will move distances at night for a blood meal which is why infestations occur in beds commonly, so merely washing bed linens or other infested areas might not eliminate the source. Bed bugs are also excellent at relocating by hitching rides in luggage, boxes, shoes, and any other mobile material.
An infestation of bed bugs is NOT evidence of unclean or unsanitary living areas. World class hotels have reported bed bug infestation in recent years perhaps due to the increased domestic and international mobility of society in the past few decades.
Commonly, the first sign of bed bug infestation is the appearance of small brownish or reddish dots on bed linens. These are fecal spots or droppings on the surface of linens from these bugs. Occupants may also notice swelling where they have been bitten.
Control
The first step of control is to have a professional thoroughly inspect the area. This inspection is required to determine the places where the bed bugs are living. Once the inspection is complete, the pest control professional will determine the proper type of control technique; treat the area and most likely return for a follow up inspection.
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